fur

fur
1 noun
1 (U) the thick soft hair that covers the bodies of some types of animal, for example cats or dogs
2 (C, U) the fur-covered skin of an animal, especially used for making clothes: Traders exchanged whiskey for furs. | a fur coat
3 (C) a coat or piece of clothing made of fur: She wore a small fur wrapped around her neck.
4 a hard grey chemical substance that sometimes forms on the inside of water-pipes and containers; scale 1 (11) AmE
5 the fur starts/begins to fly used to say that an angry argument or fight starts: The fur really started to fly when she saw the state of the kitchen.
—see also: furry 2 verb (I) also fur up especially BrE to become covered with fur 1 (4)

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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